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the United States launched the network’s news headquarters, so that “network war” once again become a hot topic. With many countries, the rapid development of the Internet in China is also facing the threat of network attacks, then China is not like the United States should be to form a network command, or into the establishment of the network to establish a unit?

over Jiucheng Internet users support

reported in the United States last year announced the establishment of Cyber ??Command, the United Kingdom, India, Korea, Germany, Japan, Russia and other countries, have begun to build the network command or set up “networks unit.” Among them, South Korea’s Cyber ??Command is scheduled to start this year.

a Chinese website last year, according to a survey conducted in June, more than 94% of Internet users in China to support China has also established a Network Warfare Command. Internet users who hold this view of the general reason is that now the network has affected every aspect of our daily lives, China should be forward-looking, should take preventive measures, can not wait for others to come and then cramming attack. Some netizens said that Network Warfare Command to ensure that our network traffic for security of great significance. Increase in the number of Chinese Internet users very quickly. The latest statistics show that the current number of Chinese netizens reached 404 million, ranking first in the world. Chinese military experts, the National Defense University professor Zhang Zhaozhong pointed out that China is now increasingly dependent on the network, but the Chinese do not have a root server. In addition, China network hardware, including many software manufacturers are basically the United States. In this sense, China is only the computer’s “user”, network security is very fragile. Zhang Zhaozhong that the networking unit is a future trend. Is imperative for China’s independent intellectual property rights of software development, strengthen management of Chinese domain names and computer hardware independent research and development, reduce dependence on foreign countries. In addition, some military and civilian network to be completely isolated in the hardware.

Some experts say “no need”

However, there are many Chinese military experts believe that China is no need to further establish the United States followed the Cyber ??Command.

military expert Dai Xu in the “World News” reporter, made it clear that China is no need to build the network headquarters, because China and the United States to pursue the strategy in the world is not the same. The United States to establish a world empire, always maintain global military leadership, and China has no such pursuit, and other countries do not seek confrontation.

Dai Xu also pointed out that, on the other hand, China should do to prepare for network security, network security must be increased to a strategic level to understand, but followed the United States to establish cyber warfare and command are two different things, is the difference between proactive and panic.

Zhao Xiaozhuo military expert believes that there could be more countries will follow the United States, the establishment of Cyber ??Command. As for China, he believes, in fact, China’s Internet police have long been the network, through the network to detect crime and protect the network security, although civilian applications, but the role of headquarters and the network is similar to “The network command is not called and called unimportant. ”

but there are military experts believe that the network warfare concept speculation suspects, of which there may be technical pitfalls. Well-known military expert Song Xiaojun, believes that the world rely on the Internet from software to hardware, its core technology and basic framework are derived from the United States. Even if other countries join fight for control of cyberspace in the core network technology still can not compete with the U.S..